No wishful thinking. If you don't want to close it immediately (perhaps you see the position is recovering), place a stop loss a bit below your...
You mixed it up between a trade you made wrongly (due to unexpected events) and "something coming out of the blue (you don't have a cue what's...
Possibilities: - the position is real. Closing it turned out to be a wise decision. - the position is erroneous. Closing it out actually opens...
OK. Forget his case and discuss other situations. 1. You made sure every position is closed before you leave home happily. Later on You come...
Yep! That is possible. A position pops up out of the blue. You didn't do anything. How come a position is up? Since the order can get stuck...
I thought about it. But please consider the following: - you haven't executed anything. Frankly how will you react when you see a position is...
Do you have some basic Internet manners? I don't know why you, kiwi_trader, is so addicted to name calling and personal attacks (search for his...
OK, I would like to take this opportunity to point out a common misconception made by many people here. Well I believe many people are traders...
For people who keep giving an example which show higher margin requirements may be helpful, you need to distinguish between two issues: A: I want...
Thanks for your reply. However you still haven't responded to my questions raised in the thread: - why does IB think it is still necessary to...
I would like to raise some questions for discussions regarding this issue. Please be rational and objective. No flame war please! 1. The...
The following case is a bug described by IBj (Interactive Brokers) which caused a client to lose money. IBj (in response to a bug which sent an...
FT79, Did you read? You are repeating the same point mentioned in my first post. Let me ask you in other ways since you can't get my...
Here's the full list of futures which still hold 100% (they used to be 50% only). I'm not interested in all markets but I still show all for...
The previous volatility occurred a few months ago. IB was the only brokerage which decided to raise most of the intraday futures margin up to...
You know that guy. Why don't you just ask him directly why he want to share his method freely? Instead of getting the most straightforward answer...
IB market data is okay but not very good. Note that it is also not true tick-by-tick datafeed. It is a snapshot-type of datafeed (the timeframe...
I don't like to rush to exit. I don't use market stops. I use stop limits and trailing stop limits, or marketable limits orders.
While not being too aggressive on margin requirement is good, being too paranoid is not. IB real-time margin monitoring and liquidation is very...
IB intraday margin policy becomes increasingly more conservative recently. If you take a look Futures Maintenance and Overnight Margin...
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